THE Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has appealed to the Kogi Government to give utmost priority to the welfare of doctors for effective healthcare delivery to the people.
Dr Godwin Tijani, the state Chairman of the association, made the call on Thursday at the 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of NMA in Lokoja.
The meeting was themed: “Intersectoral Collaboration Amongst Professionals and Professional Bodies”.
Tijani urged the state government to ensure regularity in salary payment, correction of underpayments, implementation of corrected/adjusted CONMESS, promotion and annual step increment, among others.
According to him, in spite of the several strikes embarked upon by the NMA in the past 24 months, “majority of our demands are yet to be met by the state government.
“Over these years, we lost four of our colleagues to the cold hand of death’’.
He noted that the…
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